“ Psychoanalysis is justly suspicious. One of its rules reads: Whatever disturbs the continuation of the work is a resistance. ”
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). copy citation
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
|---|---|
| Source | The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Topic | work psychoanalysis resistance |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by A. A. Brill |
| Weblink | http://www.bartleby.com/285/7.html |
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“It would not be inconsistent if one would say: “Whether this or that was contained in the dream I do not know, but the following thoughts occur to me in this direction.” But he never expresses himself thus; and it is just this disturbing influence of doubt in the analysis that stamps it as an offshoot and instrument of the psychic resistance. Psychoanalysis is justly suspicious. One of its rules reads: Whatever disturbs the continuation of the work is a resistance. 13 The forgetting of dreams, too, remains unfathomable as long as we do not consider the force of the psychic censor in its explanation. The feeling, indeed, that one has dreamt a great deal during the night and has retained only a little of it may have another meaning in a number of cases.”
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